Pregivenness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or state of being pregiven. countable, uncountable

    "The process of questioning back displaces the emphasis in phenomenology from an inquiry into modes of givenness, which assumes that there can be a simple starting point, to an inquiry into modes of pregivenness."

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"The process of questioning back displaces the emphasis in phenomenology from an inquiry into modes of givenness, which assumes that there can be a simple starting point, to an inquiry into modes of pregivenness."

Etymology

From pregiven + -ness.

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